Transplanting device



1927. Aug B. HOOKS TRANSPLANTING DEVICE Filed Sept. 16, 1926 INVENTOR ks.

WI-I-NESSESY I ATTORNEYS Patented Aug. 9,1927.

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TRANSPLANTING fnEv IcE.

Application filed. September 16, 1926. Serial No. 135,917.

This invention relates to a transplanting device and is especially designed for use in removing plants, flowers, andthelike from flower pots or containerswithout liability-of injuring or damaging the roots or breaking up or disturbing theearth surrounding the roots. In addition to this advantage Y device greatly facilitates the transferrlng operation, making the handling of the plant In orflower together with its roots and the dirt surrounding the same easy andclean in that the dirtis not broken up and consequently liable to crumble. and spill. The dirt surrounding the roots of the plant 1S maintained in compact form and protects the roots just as it did when the flower was in the pot. A further object is to provide a transplanting device having these advantages and capacities and which is of simple and durable construction, reliable and eflective 1n operation and easy and comparatively inex pensive to manufacture.

Other objects and advantages reside in certain novel features of the construction, arrangement and combination of parts which will be hereinafter more fully described and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, reference being had to the this specification, and in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing a flower pot having a transplanting device embodying the present invention, associated therewith,

Figure 2 is a view in transverse vertical I section taken through the transplanting de vice and flower pot-shown in Fig. 1,

Figure 3 is a horizontal sectional view on the line 3--3 of Figure 2, v Figure 4 is a detail perspective view of the transplanting device disassociated from a flower pot, and

"Figure 5 illustrates one form of blank from which the transplanting device may be formed. 1

Referring to the drawings and more particularly to Figs. 1 to 3 the numeral 1 designates generally a flower pot containing dirt or earth 2 in whichthe roots 3 of a plant or flower 4 are embedded or intertwined. V 'The present invention proposes the pro-- vision of a transplanting device, designated generally at 5, the transplanting device being positionedin the flowerpot before the dirt is placed therein. As shown in detail accompanying drawings forming a part of.

in Figs. 4c and 5 the transplanting device comprisesa bottom plate orbase plateor supporting plate 6 which conforms in size and shape to the bottom'of the flowerpot. Centrally this bottom plate 6 has an opening 1 of the bottom of the flower pot when the transplanting device ispos itioned in the flower pot. Arms 7 are integrally formed ing 6 which registers with the drain openwith diametrically opposite portions of the plate 6, the arms 7 having the form oft-11in I strips which are part of the same blank from which the bottom plate is cut. or

stamped, as shown to advantage in Fig. 5." I The upper-ends of the arms 7 have out turned extremities 8 which are rolled to provide tubular handle portions. The arms 7 are thinand relatively narrow and when the transplanting device is in the flower pot these arms 7 fit flush up against the as shown in Fig. 3, the arms 7 being trans I inner wall of the body of the flower pot,

versely curved to conform to the curvature I of the body of the flower pot. To strengthen the connection of the arms 7 with the plate 6 they areenlarged, as at 7 at their juncture with the plate. At least one i and preferably both side edges of the arms 7 are sharpened as clearly shown atv 9 in Fig. 3, the sharpened edges providing cutters.

When the flower or plant is growing in the pot the transplanting'device does not interfere in any way with the ordinary functionof the flower pot. In fact, only a small" portion of the 'arms7 and the-handle portions 8 are visible. .Whenit is desired to transplant the flower or plant or to remove it from the flower pot for any reason the flower pot is held and the handles 8 are I I grasped and usedto turn thetransplanting devlce bodily within the pot. The cutting I edges 9 atthis time operate to affect separation of the periphery of the body of the dirt from the inner wall of the body of has been affected an upward lift is exerted the flower pot, After a complete rotation on the handle portions '8 and the entire body 7 of the dirt will bev easily removed from the pot, the body of the dirt resting on the vice and being held'thereon by the arms 7.

bottom plate '6 of the transplanting de- As no portions ofthe body of the .dirt are I adhering to the flower pot in view ofite operation of the cutters the'dirt does not tend to break or crumble but maintains its compact form; and may be easily handled and transferred or transplanted without spilling the dlrtor damaglng the roots- In view of the formation of the transplanting device from a singleblank ofmetal or other suitable material, the transplantingv device may be produced at a comparatively "slightexpense. As shown in Figs, 2 and d the arms '7 incline slightly outwardly as they extend upwardly, conforming in 1 this respect to the tapered structure of the .ordinary flower pot.'

f l cla mzc I c I 1; A transplanting device. .comprislng a base'plate adaptedto fiton the bottom of i a flower pot below, the dirt and flower therein, arms extending upwardly irom the base plate and adapted to lit snugly against the inner wall of the flower pot, the upper ends of the arms having handle portions, the edges of the arms be ng sharpened to pro-' vide cutters.

{LA transplanting device comprising a flat thin plate of size andrshape to con-v form to the bottom or" a flower pot or the likefand adapted to engage and support the dirt contained in the flowerpotor the like,

thin narrow arms integrally formed with the late at diametricallyopposite portions thereof, the arms inclining upwardly and outwardly and being transversely curved to snugly fit against the inner wallof the flower pot or the like, the edges'of the arms being sharpened, the upper ends of the arms being extended laterally to provide handle portions. a

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